For a history of the Silja Festival (and some notes on her livery and exterior design), please refer to the previous entry about her. The photographs below show the Silja Festival in the Stockholm archipelago, inbound to Stockholm on 26 August 2007. With less than a year left for her in Silja Line service, she is sailing into the twilight both figuratively and literally. Photographed from onboard Viking Line's Viking Cinderella. Click on the image(s) to view larger size.

The exterior stylings - both the livery and the shape of the ship - are very successful in my opinion. Although the first variant of this livery, that the ship carried in 1992-1993, was better... and today she looks worse still, with a white funnel does somehow doesn't work at all.